PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11960, 15 October 1924, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL Lord and Lady Jellicoe left Dunedin for the north by yesterday’s express. and were accorded a fitting send-off. —Press Association. Mr R. W. Tate, S.M., of Whangaroi, is at present in Wellington. Mr W. Maclean, of Wellington, is at Auckland. Sir Jar os Gunson, Mayor of Auckland, is visiting Wellington. • The Hon. W. Downie Stewart, Minister for Customs, wilt arrive from the south this morning. ■Rotarians Ilott, Young and McGowan were welcomed back yesterday after attending the conference in Sydney. Mr J. Y. Roulston, accompanied by his sister. Miss M. C. Roulston, is expected to return at the latter end of March, accompanied by Dr Thompson. Dr J. P. Donald was a passenger by the Tahiti yesterday for the Cook Islands, to take up his duties as assistant health officer. Mr N. Elmslie, His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner, j-ft Wellington yesterday on an official visit to Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne. The congregation of St. Andrew’s, Hamilton, has extended a unanimous call to the Rev. W. G. Gilbert, of .Invercargill. Mr W. Newton, Conciliation Commissioner, who has been . visiting Nelson, Picton, and the West Coast during the past week, has returned to Wellington. Mr Alfred Jolly, general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Limited, is in the South Island on official business. The Hon. Sir Heaton. Rhodes. Minister for Defence, has been granted three days’ leave of absence from the House of Representatives, on account of illness. Mr T. A. Hunter, Director of Dental Services, is at Dunedin, having gone south to attend the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone of the Dental School building. Dr Thomas Harrison, of Omakau, and erstwhile a well-known Dunedin medical man, has been appointed hospital superintendent of the Cromwell Hospital, vice Dr Shore, who resigned in order to take up a Government appointment. Amongst the guests at the Rotary dub were several superintendents of Bible classes and Sunday schools, including Mr H. D. Grocott, president of the Sunday School Union, and Colonel Kirk, of the Salvation Army. Mr J R. Kirby, of Featherston District High School, who returned by the A raw a on Sunday from England, will be staying in Wellington for a few days prior to resuming his duties on November Ist The Rev. T. W. Armour, of-Inverness, Scotland, who has been called to Knox Presbyterian Church, Christchurch, will arrive ’in New Zealand about November Bth, and tho induction service will, take place on November 25th. Among the visitors to Auckland am Messrs G. Morgan, A. G. Shaw, J. Springhall, A. W. Nicol«>n, J. G. McGregor, J.. T. Spears, A. Cornelius, C. Tauser, F. F. Halaghan, F. H.' Morton, C. H. Smith, W. J. Galloway, and J. Wilson, of Wellington. Signor Birone (Consul-General for the Argentine), Mr Jim Gerald (of the Revue Company now appearing at His Majesty's Theatre), Colonel R. W. Tate (late. Governor of Samoa) 'Were guests’ at the Wellington Rotary Club- • luncheon yesterday.

"It is with regret that we record the death of Mr Thomas Munt, once an active member of the committee. His untimely death occurred at sea while, qh route to England, where he was looking forward to having a well-earned nest.”— Annual report of the Industrial Association. Mr A. SadHo has been elected chairman of the School Committees’ Association in the vacancy caused by the death of the' Rev. Dr Catchpole. Mr Sando was elected unopposed, and several speakers eulogised the value of the work done in the past by Mr Sando in the interests of the schools. Mr F. Twort (South Wellington) was ap. gointed a vice-president in place of Mt A tribute to the untiring efforts of the late Rev. Dr Catchpole, chairman of the School Committees’ Association, Was given at a meeting of the association. The acting-chairman, Mr A. Sando, made eulogistic reference to the work of the late, gentleman, who, he eaid, had left behind a splendid record. On the motion of Mr .Sando the association placed on record its appreciation of the good work of. the late Dr Catchpole, and tendered to his widow and family sincerest sympathy in their bereavement. News hae been received of the death at Okauia at the age of about 80 years of a native namod Keepa Taiporutu, commonly known as Kemp. Tho deceased was really a native of Balls, where-he held considerable land interests, but- he had bben living at Okauia for nearly 20 years. He was a loyal Maori, having served under Major Kemp with the (Queen’s forces in the Maori War, participating in fighting in the Wanganui district. He leaves a widow, three sons, and a daughter. Two sons served ip. the pioneer battalion In the late war, one being killed. ■